Moving targets detection and tracking under dynamic background based on multicore TMS320C6678

In practical applications, target detection and tracking requires both high detection accuracy and good real-time performance, especially in the case of hardware implementation. Hence, the target detection and tracking algorithm should be simple and effective and the hardware needs to be powerful enough to meet the real-time requirement. In this paper, we proposed a moving target detection and tracking method based on fast corner detection and frame subtraction under dynamic background. An emerging eight-core DSP, i.e., TMS320C6678, is then adopted for the implementation of the proposed algorithm. Since it is multi-core, the algorithm can be divided into several small tasks executed in different cores simultaneously, which save running time dramatically. Experimental results show that the proposed method has good detection and tracking performance and TMS320C6678 is able to realize real-time tracking of the moving car under the dynamic background.